I searched around and didn't really find anything on it. But I was thinking one possability is a modular factory and power setup. What I mean specifically by a "Modular" Factory is. I noticed alot of "Advanced Machines" are Premade items you just drop like the "Weather station" But I think a more Modular setup would allow much more interesting machines to be made. For example One machine could be a sorter. Any items that go through it will get sorted into various chests. Another Machine maybe a caller. Which will call items from a chest. Another would be an Assembler, which would assemble an item based on a blue print. An the whole thing requires power and water to run. From Rain catchers or from underwater sources. You know essentially creating your own custom manufacturing center on the planet. ---- Essentially you could create alot more crazier compontents such as a Weapon shooter. The weapon shooter requires ammo to shoot. The ammo could be auto manufacturered and automatically placed in the gun. So you could create an automated defense system through the setup. Anyway I am always a big fan of being ale to create my own setups for various situations. --- Other machines could be Green houses \ Harvestors \ rain catcher \ etc.
I love this! I am hoping something similar to what you are talking about will be implemented, especially with the auto-defenses. Those would be awesome combined with an invasion (sort of like goblin invasions in Terraria) from a primitive intelligent native species. I also love the idea in general! It reminds me of Buildcraft (Minecrafters know). I hope they do it. Perhaps you can have automated food processors as well, as Tiy said that there would be cooking in a recent tweet. Electroman gives five volts negative!
Ya. Personally I am not a big fan of prefabrication. I like getting my hands on compontents and making my own things Ya I am a big fan of red power for minecraft. I created a 650,000 unit item sorter. Which automatically sorted and retrieved items. An all you had to deal with was a single box. But if the game started with something similar off the bat. I would be in love. Thats one drawback I didn't like about terreria, the engineering aspect was too limited. I created a 2 way teleporter after timers came out. [Though one had to be the world spawn] - Then a automatic draw bridge. But thats about it. I really hope they take engineering to the next level.
